A multinational law firm is not a guy.
Georgia Elections Officials Recover Legal Fees In Trump Suit Over 2020 Results | Talking Points Memo
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Well, he paid the T University $25 million settlement, though with whose money is still being debated.
But here I expect it was a case of being told that it would cost more to fight the fee demand than to pay it, and those attorneys who would do the fighting required a rather substantial sum up front.
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“White said the money came from Squire Patton Boggs, the firm of the attorney representing Trump and Shafer, Randy Evans.”
Squire Patton Boggs? Hmm. Wasn’t that the firm that notified me that I was being offered the chance of a lifetime by some sub African prince? Geez, I should keep better track of my legal correspondence.
Well at least they didn’t demand arbitration.
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I think there at least a few multinational law firms fully capable of stepping in the same pile of dog shit twice. They’re not infallible.
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Trump relies on the kindness of others to pay his legal bills. Legal fees, like charitable contributions, are for suckers.
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Big Law is far from infallible, but serial engagements by deadbeat clients are not allowed.
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SPB did not take any kind of loss, having not represented Trump et al. in the underlying baseless lawsuit. All it did was make an appearance in the case post-defeat and route the money to the counties in order to pay off their claim for fees. The money almost certainly came from the Trump campaign or his leadership PAC slush fund. It’s a paltry amount of fees, well worth paying off in lieu of racking up more fees in a doomed effort to fight it.
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Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with 45 offices in 20 countries.
Ah yes, venerable well establish firm…
formed in 2014…
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Less than 22K? I guess the counties didn’t need to mount much of a defence to prevail. Just a couple of high school kids from government class.
Is anyone else old enough to remember when a platform of the Republican party included tort reform?
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I guess that’s certainly a way to look at it, but my own layperson self always tends to think that if you go in your pocket and pay the opposite party’s legal fees, it’s not a huge compliment to the strength of your own case.
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I hope El Paso is next
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If I were the Lincoln Project, I’d jam right up Donald’s fat ass the fact that he sued, lost, knuckled under, and paid.
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Yup, regarding Trump, it’s the optics that are most effective. He doesn’t give a shit what you say about him, only how he looks.
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It still does. Their Dear Leader wants to rewrite defamation laws in a way that would allow him to sue whenever anyone speaks the truth about him. He also wants FCC Fairness Doctrine re-invoked so that GQPer get free airtime whenever truths are spoken about them.
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The merger of Squire and Patton Boggs was in 2014.
Squire was founded in 1890 and Hammonds (merged with Squire) was founded in 1887., and Patton Boggs was founded in 1962.
My understanding is that it is customary for presidential campaigns to reimburse local authorities for their expenses incurred on campaign stops, but it’s not like El Paso has any kind of contract with Trump or his campaign apparatus. At best, they have an equitable claim for something like quantum meruit. Which, with an El Paso jury pool, they would have a good chance of winning! Sue the MF’er to make him cough up some cash.
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If memory serves, this particular claim was for one of his singular campaign rallies held at the El Paso Colosseum, a city (or county) owned facility. There must be a contract of some sort for the use of the facility. But maybe that piece was paid. It was fairly easy to follow that stuff from Las Cruces but much harder from Cincinnati.
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"… the court found, Trump and Shafer had “not shown that this is one of those extremely rare cases that would invoke our original jurisdiction.”
Who is “Shafer”?
This sloppy reporting drives me bonkers. Good reporting generally forbids mentioning someone for the first time in an article by only their last name, not having first reported their first name and title, or relevance to the story.
I can later figure out that Shafer is Georgia’s Republican Party chairman, but apparently one without a first name.
He’s a rock star chairman, hence only one name. Sort of like Cher, or Moby.
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